Pitchfork: Best Songs of 2009

My Girls

Animal Collective (2009)

Stillness Is the Move

Dirty Projectors (2009)

1901

Phoenix (2009)

Daniel

Bat for Lashes (2009)

Two Weeks

Grizzly Bear (2009)

Zero

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2009)

Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane)

Big Boi (2010)

Lisztomania

Phoenix (2009)

Lust For Life

Girls (2009)

Feel It All Around

Washed Out (2009)

What Would I Want? Sky

Animal Collective (2009)

While You Wait for the Others

Grizzly Bear (2009)

Deadbeat Summer

Neon Indian (2009)

Hyph Mngo

Joy Orbison (2009)

Hellhole Ratrace

Girls (2009)

Crystalised

The xx (2009)

Surf Solar

Fuck Buttons (2009)

Dominos (Rustie Remix) [Bonus Track]

The Big Pink (2009)

Digidesign

Joker (2008)

Young Hearts Spark Fire

Japandroids (2009)

House of Flying Daggers (feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah & Method Man)

Raekwon (2009)

Seasun

Delorean (2008)

Brother Sport

Animal Collective (2009)

Raindrops

Basement Jaxx (2009)

You Saved My Life

Cass McCombs (2009)

Blood Bank

Bon Iver (2009)

Love Cry

Four Tet (2026)

This Tornado Loves You

Neko Case (2009)

Ecstasy

JJ (2009)

Young Adult Friction

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (2009)

The Fear

Lily Allen (2009)

Warm Heart of Africa

The Very Best (2009)

9x's Outta 10

DJ Quik (2009)

Walkabout (with Noah Lennox) [feat. Noah Lennox]

Atlas Sound (2009)

When I Grow Up

Fever Ray (2009)

Swim

Surfer Blood (2010)

Knotty Pine (Live at Power Station)

Dirty Projectors (2019)

Bad Romance

Lady Gaga (2009)

Lovesick Teenagers

Bear In Heaven (2009)

Keep It Goin' Louder (feat. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze)

Major Lazer (2009)

Velvet

The Big Pink (2009)

French Navy

Camera Obscura (2009)

Empire State of Mind

Jay‐Z (2012)

Watching the Planets

The Flaming Lips (2009)

Bicycle

Memory Tapes (2008)

Heads Will Roll

Various Artists (2009)

Bay of Pigs (Detail)

Destroyer (2011)

Here to Fall

Yo La Tengo (2009)

Rollerskate

Matias Aguayo (2009)

Aeon

Antony and the Johnsons (2009)

Actor Out of Work

St. Vincent (2009)

Islands

The xx (2009)

Purple City

Joker & Ginz (2009)

Glass

Bat for Lashes (2009)

Sunshine

John Talabot (2009)

Crown On the Ground

Sleigh Bells (2010)

If I Had a Heart

Fever Ray (2009)

Sunlight

Tune-Yards (2009)

Freeway

Kurt Vile (2008)

Quick Canal (with Laetitia Sadier) [feat. Laetitia Sadier]

Atlas Sound (2009)

Island, IS

Volcano Choir (2009)

Fake Blues

Real Estate (2009)

Songs Remind Me of You

Annie (2009)

A New Chance

The Tough Alliance (2007)

11th Dimension

Julian Casablancas (2009)

Cornerstone

Arctic Monkeys (2009)

The Girl and the Robot

Röyksopp (2009)

You Belong With Me

Taylor Swift (2008)

Orange Shirt

Discovery (2022)

Close chorus

A Sunny Day In Glasgow (2009)

Daylight

Matt and Kim (2009)

Rain On

Woods (2009)

Should Have Taken Acid With You

Neon Indian (2009)

Quitter's Raga

Gold Panda (2010)

Don't Haunt This Place

The Rural Alberta Advantage (2008)

Irm

Charlotte Gainsbourg (2009)

Goth Star

Pictureplane (2009)

Psychic City (Voodoo City)

YACHT (2009)

Northern Lights

Bowerbirds (2009)

Love the night away (Tiedye Remix)

DJ Kaos (2019)

Paparazzi

Lady Gaga (2008)

Parallel Lines

Junior Boys (2009)

No Hope Kids

Wavves (2008)

Best I Ever Had

Drake (2009)

Fangela

Here We Go Magic (2008)

Moth's Wings

Passion Pit (2009)

You're a Target

No Age (2009)

Rockin' That Shit

THE-DREAM (2009)

Die Slow

HEALTH (2009)

My Job

Cam'ron (2009)

Something Is Squeezing My Skull

Morrissey (2009)

Sun Was High (So Was I)

Best Coast (2009)

Now We Can See

The Thermals (2009)

Wasted (feat. Plies)

Gucci Mane (2009)

Be My Girl

Smith Westerns (2008)

Arming Eritrea

Future of the Left (2009)

Bode

Julianna Barwick (2009)

Aidys Girl's a Computer

Darkstar (2009)